Benjamin West A Biography
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More
Art
Impressions of Uniyo-Ye The School of the Japanese Colour-Print Artists
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 75 pages. Fourteen illustrations. Index. An early work and critical review of the Japanese colour-print artists. 2nd copy ex-library. More
History of Modern Art Painting * Sculpture * Architecture
New York: Abrams, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 663 pages. 1393 illustrations, including 264 in color. Postscript. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I235. "An authoritative history of modern art and architecture in Europe and America from their roots in the 19th century, through the major movements of the 20th century,...... Extremely well illustrated."..... More
Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishers, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. 342 pages. More
Le Peche Veniel Conte Drolatique
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1922. Original Wraps. 4to, with brilliant color illustrations by J. Hamman. Limited edition, copy 450 of 590 on velin de cuve paper. Text in French. More
Crusader Figural Sculpture in the Holy land Twelfth century examples from Acre Nazareth and Belvoir Castle
Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 237 pages. Fifty illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Professor Barasch, founded theDepartment of the History of Art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER K87. "A scholarly study of surviving Crusader sculpture in the Holy Land, some of which have been recently discovered." More
The Prints of the Pont-Aven School Gauguin and His Circle In Brittany
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1988. First edition. Paperback. 143 pages. Foreword by Douglas Druick. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Bibliography. A representative selection of the group's printmaking activities from approximately 1888-1895. More
The Growth Of Canadian Painting
London: Collins, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Sixteen color plates and 64 black and white illustrations. With a Foreword by Eric Newton. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1248. "Tries to give a chart of 20th century painting in Canada. Not an orthodox history of Canadian Art. Covers the work of 27 artists..... More
Principles of Color and Color Mixing
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947. Third impression. Hardcover. 130 pages. Eleven brilliant full-color plates. Dictionary of Color Terms. Index. A unique yet simple system for identifying, with speed and accuracy, a wide variety of today's standard and popular hues, tints, tones. and shades -- including 242 formulas for mixing them. Descriptions..... More
The Works of James McNeill Whistler
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1907. Whistler, James McNeill. First edition. Hardcover. 302 pages. Thirty-nine black and white plates. With an incomplete List of Whistler's Paintings in Oil and in Water-Colour, Pastels and Drawings. A List of Whistler's Etchings. A List of Whistler's Lithographs. Index. Extremities rubbed. FREITAG 10246. LUCAS p...... More
Some Modern Sculptors
London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1929. Second edition. Hardcover. 119 pages in text. Thirty-nine plates. A brief survey of modern sculpture with examples. LUCAS p63. More
Georges Braque
New York: Abrams, 1980. Braque, Georges. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. 121 illustrations; forty-eight tipped-in color plates. Bibliography. Index. Critical commentary on each plate. FREITAG 1027. More
Stanley Spencer A Biography
London: Harvill Press, 1962. Spencer, Stanley. First edition. Hardcover. 255 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Index. A standard work on Spencer. FREITAG 9093. More
The Roots & Routes of Art in the 20th Century
New York: Horizon, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Bibliography. Index of Names in the text. A narrative guide-map to the key moments of avant-garde art and activity in the 20th century, surveying the movements and the intellectual ferment which formed them. More
Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives A Note on Their Lives and Times
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 138 pp. Thirty two illustrations in color and black and white. More
Art In European Architecture
New York: Reinhold, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 228 pp. Preface by Le Corbusier. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and with color plates. Index. Le Corbusier notes, "Neither architecture nor urbanismhave as yet manifested themselves in terms of decisive and universally accepted realities." (Unlike painting and sculpture). Le Corbusier admires..... More
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix; Translated from the French by Walter Pach
New York: Crown, 1948. Hardcover. 750 pages. 24.5 x 17 cm. Illustrated with reproductions of the paintings and drawings of the artist in color and duotone. List of Illustrations. Index. Laid-in an ALS from Pach to Clarence Cramer of Philadelphia, a member of the Poor Richard Club dated 3/29/48. More
Indian Art of The Americas
New York: Heye Foundation, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. Photography by Carmelo Guadagno. With 500 illustrations, some in full-color. Bibliography. The Museum of the American Indian, HeyeFoundation presented the contents herein as an exhibit and traveling show; therefore, monumental works of art were to bulky to be carried from..... More
Fifty Great Western Illustrators A Bibliographic Checklist
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 457 pages. Approximately 100 plates with thirteen color plates. The author's purpose, admitting his "fifty great" was highly personal, is to provide enough information to the collector, dealer or librarian to identify the first printing of any entry. There are in excess of..... More
American Painting First Flowers of Our Wilderness
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 368 pages. With several color and over 150 black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL H50. "When this book was published in 1947, it was the mostcomprehensive general history of American Painting to 1775, and it remains of value today..." More
Nineteenth Century American Painting
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. With 230 illustrations, sixty of which are in full color. Index. KARPEL I53. "This amply illustrated popularized survey attempts touse American standards rather than European ones to access nineteenth century American painting... The more than one hundred generous illustrations,approximately..... More
G. Braque
Paris: Pierre Tisne, 1956. Braque,Georges. First edition. Hardcover. 109 pages. Approximately 111 pages intext. 136 illustrations with about half in color and tipped-in. Texts. Analytical Notices. Bibliography. An important monograph on one of the major modern painters of this century. FREITAG 1035. LUCAS p.128. More
Letters Of Eric Gill
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 480 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Edited by Walter Shewring. Correspondents and Journals Addressed. Index. Just under 350 letters in this collection with the first dated 1900. Six of the twelve illustrations reproduce letters. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate. Spine faded... More